"We have arrived at that brave new world that seemed so distant in 1932 when Aldous Huxley wrote about human beings created in test tubes in what he called hatchery. In recent weeks, we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them." ... Huxley predicted the creation of embryos in test tubes which is becoming more and more apparent in the world today. ... As Holden is performing the Voigh-Kompff test on Leon, a heartbeat is becoming louder and louder to inform the viewer that a character is in danger. ... Savage reservation represent the values o...

• Word Count: 1565
• Approx Pages: 6

Love is not encouraged, rather promiscuity is socially acceptable in the World State, "everyone belongs to everyone else."" ... Love, death, family, and passion are major themes in his plays, every one of these removed from the minds of the World State citizens. ... When grown in test tubes and bottles until "decanted-, then raised by various teachers in the Center London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, families come to be thought of as primitive and unhygienic, preventing people of this society from identifying a major theme of almost every Shakespearean play. Love is also devalued; seein...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Children raised without parents in this way will be unaffectionate and unable to have real emotions or truly love. ... With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. ... People are conditioned against love, nature, literature and other naturally desired forms of expression. ... There is no family, no love, no science or art or history- all of which are preliminary to anything that we would call society. ...

• Word Count: 1526
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Winston hates the Party passionately and wants to test the limits of its power by committing innumerable crimes throughout the novel, ranging from writing "Down with Big Brother- in his diary, to having an illegal love affair with Julia, to getting himself secretly indoctrinated into the anti-Party Brotherhood. ... In Brave New World it is possible to identify two main types of truth that the World State seeks to eliminate: it controls and muffles all efforts by citizens to gain any sort of scientific or empirical truth, and it attempts to destroy all kinds of human truths, such as love, frien...

• Word Count: 1697
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both Huxley and Scott use aspects of their style to show the lack of importance, that both societies have on the natural world which does not only include the physical landscape but also what considered natural nowadays like birth, motherhood, family and of course love. ... The language of Shakespeare brings out such emotions as love, ecstasy, ambition, jealousy and suffering. ... Certainly within the novel, man has become a commodities and he has no longer become as a result of sexual relations but rather scientifically controlled test tube breeding. ...

• Word Count: 1991
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate